InfluenceofculuraldifferencesonoralEnglisheaching_开题报告

Nowadays, more and more Chinese people recognize English as a necessary tool in their daily life and start to study English. However it happens to many Chinese students in their daily English communication with native English speakers that, they fail to fully understand the native English speakers’ said or unsaid meaning, and in the meantime, fail to express themselves effectively. Most of the time, these failures occur because they don’t fully understand the cultural background of their audience and fail to choose the most precise wording. This significantly affects the efficiency of communication.

So in the course of oral English teaching, it is of the same importance to let them understand the cultural background of a certain wording, phrasing, idiom, or slang, than to teach the student the vocabulary, the grammar, or the pronunciation correctly only.

The target of traditional English education was the linguistic competence, also known as accuracy in wording sequence and formation. But this educational target was greatly challenged in 1970s, communicative competence gradually replaced linguistic competence to be the new target of English education.

What is the relationship between a language and its culture?Language is an important part of culture, the language is the carrier of its culture, and the culture is the deposit of its language. Certain wordings, idioms, slangs, or word order, in certain circumstances may manifest certain cultural, customs, traditions and history.

Why culture is so important to oral English study?

When we start a conversation with a native English speaker, the conversation has to be started with the health or living condition, or the weather, it is not supposed to be started in traditional Chinese way, like have you done eating?

When our guests are leaving, we should say it was nice meeting with you, but it is not in English way if you say walk slow and come back again!

These two instances are the most typical difference between English and Chinese culture. English speakers could easily get confused and misunderstand your intention, and the effectiveness of communication would be greatly sabotaged.

Current situation of English lingual and cultural education in China.

In most part of China, English lingual education formally starts from primary school, but just a little English cultural, custom, and tradition is introduced along with the English language education in the English textbooks. The specified and detailed English cultural education starts no earlier than college education level, only if students choose the related majors. That is to say education of English culture and language are not closely synchronized. Therefore, most of the Chinese students, are only educated with vocabulary and grammar for many years, but know very limited volume of English culture. When they put words they learnt together into use, they can only apply the most direct meaning of the words, but not the extended meanings, in this way, English they learnt cannot be flexibly and precisely used.

Dell Hymes remarked that, the communicative ability contains 4 parts, 1, formational possibility, that is, grammatical and wording correctness, 2, implementation feasibilities, that is, whether your words is easily understood, 3, contextual adaptiveness, that is, whether your words is appropriate in the context, 4, implementation status, that whether what you say is exactly what you mean, and whether it is also what your audience understood. 2 and 3 are closely relevant to the awareness and acknowledgement of English culture, literally, it is intercultural awareness.

Intercultural awareness reflects how much cultural background a foreign language learners master, how could they be adaptively capable in foreign language communication, and whether they can react in their minds just like a native foreign language speaker without obstacles while communicating with a foreigner. Intercultural awareness secures the effectiveness and preciseness of foreign language communication throughout the process.

4. Outline

1, Introduction

1,1, relation between culture and language

1,2, cultural application in oral communication

2, the present situation of oral English teaching

2,1, Oral English teaching in English language education

2,2, present situation of English cultural education.

2,3, correlation between English linguistic and cultural education.

3, how to reinforce the cultural education during oral English teaching

3,1, strengthen oral English tutors’ cultural education

3,2, curricular and extracurricular cultural education

3,3, cultural scene reconstruction during oral English teaching

4, Conclusion

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